保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to several large elliptical galaxies, a ring-shaped galaxy is lurking on the right of the image. A pair of bright stars are also visible at the left of the image, notable for their colorful crisscrossing diffraction spikes. This colle...
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Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks with local students during an Earth Day event, Thursday, April 20, 2023, at Union Station in Washington. The agency’s Earth Day exhibits are a free, public part of yearly celebrations; visitors can participate in hands-on activities and learn about the many ways NASA conducts Earth science. Image Credit: NASA/K...
This view of the Antennae Galaxies, two large galaxies colliding 60 million light-years away, is one of the first research images from the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023 (local time New Zealand). This image and one of the Tarantula Nebula were captured as the balloon-bor...
This April 16, 2023, enhanced color image of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the clearest view of the rotorcraft since its first flight. Ingenuity completed its 50th flight on April 13, 2023; the helicopter’s first flight on Mars was two years ago on April 19, 2021. This picture was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance ro...
Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest (center) in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station. This image was taken as the station orbited 263 miles above the Indian subcontinent. In addition to photography, instruments on the space station like the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer and the Temporal Experiment for Storms and...
2023年4月10日，NASA肯尼迪航天中心，一只美国秃鹰俯冲降落在一根杆子上。这只鹰是在筑巢季节在佛罗里达太空港定居的一对伴侣中的一员。今年，这对夫妇在肯尼迪公园路附近的一棵树上饲养了一只孤独的幼鹰，该巢穴距离车辆装配大楼约两英里。肯尼迪目前是大约20对筑巢的秃鹰的家园。
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204’s bright central bulk. The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. Hubble observed JO204 as part of a survey performed with the inten...
Floodwater (dark blue) stands out against the vegetation in agricultural fields around Tulare Lake near Corcoran, California, in this enhanced color image taken by Landsat 8 on March 29, 2023. Heavy rain and snow in the first three months of 2023 have once again brought water to Tulare’s lakebed, but also flooding several nearby towns. 2023 has been the wett...
Former NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shakes hands with a guest during the White House Easter Egg Roll in this photo from Monday, April 10, 2023. The agency also brought spacewalk suits for children to see and try on, shared images of space, and conducted an egg drop experiment. Embracing the event’s “EGGucation” theme, NASA’s STEM activities even took place in s...
